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Fare Integration: Creating a 'Fair' Transit Zone System
Throughout this fare integration series, we have looked at the various options that Metrolinx is proposing, one of which is fare by zone. One of the issues that we touched on briefly in the fare zone...
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New Details Emerge for 98-Storey Yonge Street Tower
In late February, plans for a 343.9-metre tower were first revealed, with renderings showing a glassy 98-storey tower dominating the Toronto skyline from Yonge and Gerrard. With details of Cresford...
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Photo of the Day: Richmond Adelaide Centre
Today's Photo of the Day is a shot of the distinctive black cladding of Oxford Properties' Richmond Adelaide Centre. Captured by Marcus Mitanis via Flickr, the façade of the of the 1960s-built office...
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Mayor John Tory's executive committee approves plan for $3.35 billion one-stop Scarborough subway; Report says municipalities are failing seniors; City moves forward with plan to target bad landlords;...
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Explainer: BREEAM
In Toronto, the topics of energy efficiency and environmental sensitivity in development cannot be discussed without mentioning LEED Certification. This evaluation system, however, is not the only one,...
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The Bluffs: 9-Storey RAW Design Coming to Kingston Road
Close by one of Southern Ontario's landmark natural features, a nine-storey condominium dubbed The Bluffs is planned on Toronto's Kingston Road. Located in Scarborough near St. Clair's eastern...
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Sam The Record Man Sign Coming to Yonge-Dundas Square
Three years after the announcement of a new Yonge-Dundas Square home for the iconic sign, Ryerson University has revealed the Sam The Record Man sign will be back on display later this year, with...
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Nobu Hotel & Restaurant Brand to Anchor Mercer Street Towers
Adding a layer of gloss to what was already one of Toronto most-talked about developments, the global luxury brand Nobu Hospitality has been announced as the operator of the 15-35 Mercer Street project...
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Yonge Sheppard Centre Rebuild Ongoing, Rental Tower Rejigged
In the past couple of months, much has changed on the northeast corner of Yonge and Sheppard in Toronto's North York City Centre area where ongoing construction activity is reshaping the Yonge Sheppard...
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Photo of the Day: CN Tower from Harbourfront
Today's Photo of the Day presents a vibrant long exposure view of the CN Tower. Submitted to the Urban Toronto Flickr Pool by Hồng Tiến, this shot was captured from Harbourfront, with the Toronto...
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Toronto cyclists endure a dramatic rise in dooring incidents; Protest planned at John Fisher Public School to oppose condo development; What Toronto Can Learn About Childcare from Japan; and more...
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Throwback Thursday: Union Station's Great Hall
More often than not, our Throwback Thursday features chronicle a city transformed by new built form, with photographs charting the relentless pace of Toronto's ongoing development boom. Change and...
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Growth to Watch For: UrbanToronto's Round-up of the East End
Since the turn of the year, the 2017 vintage of our annual Growth to Watch For series has surveyed new and ongoing developments throughout Toronto. So far, the 14 entries in this year's series have...
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Brick Cladding Shapes Daniels Waterfront Office Complex
In Toronto's nascent East Bayfront neighbourhood, the volume of construction is such that it's hard to distinguish one concrete skeleton from another. Travelling east along Queen's Quay from Yonge,...
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'Mountanious' 227 Gerrard East Met With Backlash By Residents
"It's too tall.""It's mountainous.""No more than four storeys." These were just some of the comments made during the March 8th community consultation for Rosewater Capital's proposed eight-storey...
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Development Temporarily Turns Dundas Street into a Causeway
Rare side-by-side excavations at the intersection of Dundas and Jarvis Streets in Downtown Toronto have created what some people might consider a rather precarious situation, where the road has been...
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Fare Integration: Comparing the Options for Better Transit Fares
In parts 1 through 4 of this series on fare integration for transit riders in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA), we first presented the options, and then analyzed the modified status quo...
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Photo of the Day: Gooderham at Dusk
Today's Photo of the Day features a long exposure shot of the Gooderham Building. Submitted to the Urban Toronto Flickr Pool by Walter Sim, this shot captures the photogenic historic landmark, together...
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Toronto has outgrown provincial oversight: Opinion; Ontario reconsidering a foreign buyers' tax to cool housing market; Pushing Back on Skyrocketing Housing Prices; and more news:Toronto has outgrown...
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Cladding Installation Underway at Ottawa's 23-Storey Arthaus
By Toronto standards, the 23-storey height of DevMcgill's Arthaus probably wouldn't register much excitement. Not that height is generally the primary determinant of a project's quality and impact, of...
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